"When Men Change" tells the story of four men who changed the way they think about gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, and violence. In recent years, there has been increased interest in exploring how men can contribute to promoting gender equality and preventing violence against women and girls. As the evidence base grows, now is the . Learn More
EU – How to Make EU Trade Policy Gender-Equal
European Parliament – 11 May 2017 Presentation Gea Meijers EP INTA + FEMM Hearing HOW TO MAKE EU TRADE POLICY GENDER-EQUAL I would like to thank the INTA and FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, for organizing this important hearing and for inviting our WIDE + network to speak. This joint initiative by the FEMM and . Learn More
ISIS Recruitment of Western Women
By Anne Speckhard, PhD* In the past two decades I have interviewed almost five hundred terrorists, extremists, and in the case of dead suicide terrorists—their family members, close associates or hostages. These interviews have taken place in Europe, North America, Turkey, Russia and the Middle East. My research questions have always been the . Learn More
Preventing Violence, Promoting Peace – Toolkit for Preventing Interpersonal, Collective & Extremist Violence
Direct Link to Full 146-Page 2017 Toolkit: https://www.thecommonwealth-healthhub.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Preventing-Violence-Main-Report.pdf . Learn More
UN Special Rapporteurs & Independent Experts – Country Visits
The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, . Learn More
How to Raise a Feminist Son
We raise our girls to fight stereotypes and pursue their dreams, but we don’t do the same for our boys? By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and ILLUSTRATIONS BY AGNES LEE - JUNE 1, 2017, NY Times We’re now more likely to tell our daughters they can be anything they want to be — an astronaut and a mother, a tomboy and a girlie girl. But we don’t do the same . Learn More
Ukraine – Conflict-Displaced Ukrainians Surviving on Just USD 2.50 Per Day – Women
Half of IDP households in Ukraine are families with children. Photo: IOM / V.Shuvayev 5/16/17 - On average, income per IDP in Ukraine is 1,991 Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH) or USD 75 per month, or approximately USD 2.50 per day. But some are even worse off, with 21 per cent surviving on less than two dollars a day. The average price of a loaf of bread . Learn More
USA – Women’s Student Debt Crisis
Right now about 44 million borrowers in the United States hold about $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans. The scale of outstanding student loans and an increasing share of borrowers who fail to repay have made many Americans aware that student debt is a challenge for society and for individual borrowers. Yet despite the fact that women . Learn More
Femicide Watch Platform Prototype Launched at the 2017 UN Crime Commission
4 May 2017 - Violence against women and girls is still so deeply embedded in cultures around the world that it is almost invisible. Yet this brutality is not inevitable. Once recognised for what it is - a construct of power and a means of maintaining the status-quo - it can be dismantled. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, UNODC Director, quoted this . Learn More
Comparison of the EU Istanbul Convention & The UN CEDAW Convention – Measures to Prevent & Combat Violence Against Women
Direct Link to Full 14-Page Council of Europe Publication: https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168059aa28 Document contains multiple charts for detailed comparisons of CEDAW & The EU Istanbul Convention. . Learn More
India -“Anti-Human Trafficking Caravan” Tours Villages & Towns
How music, street plays and puppet shows are being used to entertain and educate villagers about human trafficking Performers enact a play on human trafficking in Purnea district in eastern India's Bihar state as part of public awareness campaign organised by charities Banglanatak.org and Shakti Vahini in this photo. Shakti . Learn More
Migrant Mother Classic Photo Reflecting a Woman’s Despair & Poverty, Resonates in Today’s Social Turmoil
Dorothea Lange's “Migrant Mother,” taken in Nipomo, Calif., in March 1936, captured the despair of that era through the eyes of a 32-year-old mother who had just sold her car tires for food. (Dorothea Lange) Associated Press Dorothea Lange was driving by a pea pickers’ camp on the California coast when she stumbled across a weary mother and . Learn More
BRICS Feminist Watch W20 – Analysis – Not for Feminists, or Civil Society!
By Priti Darooka , Feminist policy expert and activist based in New Delhi, India. In April, I attended the W20 hosted in Berlin by Germany, representing a small but strong cohort of gender and policy experts, the newly formed BRICS Feminist Watch (BFW). I came away a bit disillusioned at the sheer lack of imagination and priority for what this . Learn More
Brazil – Rural & Peasant Women & The Struggle for the Right to Land – Case Study
http://feministallianceforrights.org/blog/2017/05/15/women-and-the-right-to-land-a-case-study-of-brazil/ . Learn More
Shrinking Space” for Activists, NGO’s, Civil Society – Analysis
Across the world, in both democratic and non-democratic states, many activists and social justice organizations face an increasingly repressive and securitized environment as well as unprecedented attacks on their legitimacy and security. The current emergency has been a long time in the making. But only recently has it galvanized a concerted . Learn More
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